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43-31-35 - Bond required of commanders of vessels bringing into state certain persons who may require support and care.

§ 43-31-35. Bond required of commanders of vessels bringing into state certain persons who may require support and care.
 

If any person commanding a ship, vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft imports into this state, or brings to the shores or within the limits thereof, any infant, person with mental illness, maimed, aged or infirm person or vagrant who is likely to become chargeable on the county, on the requisition of the supervisor of the district or the mayor of any municipality, the captain, master, or commander of the ship, vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft shall enter into bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the county, conditioned to indemnify the county against all charges that may be incurred in the support and care of that person. Any captain, master, or commander failing or refusing to give the bond required shall forfeit and pay to the county the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each infant, person with mental illness, maimed, aged, or infirm person or vagrant so brought into the state, to be recovered by action. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 14, art. 2 (9); 1857, ch. 23, art. 19; 1871, § 1989; 1880, § 640; 1892, § 3164; 1906, § 3587; Hemingway's 1917, § 6204; 1930, § 5715; 1942, § 7366; Laws, 2008, ch. 442, § 17, eff from and after July 1, 2008.
 

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